If only his wife, a fully adult human who chose to marry him, hadn't also stood in front of International Media and made a whole speech about "calling down holy vengeance" on those she presumed were responsible for her husband's murder before anyone was arrested two days later. If she had chosen "this is a time of great pain and loss for our family, and we ask that you respect us and our private grief" instead of "we will DESTROY THE LEFT FOR THIS," it would be a bit easier to have empathy for her. But she isn't a bystander to the Legacy of Charlie Kirk any more than she was some ignorant non-participant in his hate-mongering life. She chose him. And she chose him knowing what he was all about. And when she could have pled for humanity and grace, she chose to weaponize her assumptions and make grand public declarations of "war" against an entire field of invented bogeymen who were, yet again, entirely uninvolved. The GOP and Trump and The Right didn't "make a spectacle" of her grief, SHE DID. The Party didn't stand in front of cameras and cry vengeance upon entirely unrelated and already marginalized communities, that was her.
It is a private tragedy that she lost her husband. But she is the individual who attempted immediately to turn her private grief into a public battle.
What sort of woman marries a monster like that? And imagine how they'd have raised those kids into mini-fascists. Hopefully without him she can get her head on straight and raise her children to be human beings.
If only his wife, a fully adult human who chose to marry him, hadn't also stood in front of International Media and made a whole speech about "calling down holy vengeance" on those she presumed were responsible for her husband's murder before anyone was arrested two days later. If she had chosen "this is a time of great pain and loss for our family, and we ask that you respect us and our private grief" instead of "we will DESTROY THE LEFT FOR THIS," it would be a bit easier to have empathy for her. But she isn't a bystander to the Legacy of Charlie Kirk any more than she was some ignorant non-participant in his hate-mongering life. She chose him. And she chose him knowing what he was all about. And when she could have pled for humanity and grace, she chose to weaponize her assumptions and make grand public declarations of "war" against an entire field of invented bogeymen who were, yet again, entirely uninvolved. The GOP and Trump and The Right didn't "make a spectacle" of her grief, SHE DID. The Party didn't stand in front of cameras and cry vengeance upon entirely unrelated and already marginalized communities, that was her.
It is a private tragedy that she lost her husband. But she is the individual who attempted immediately to turn her private grief into a public battle.
What sort of woman marries a monster like that? And imagine how they'd have raised those kids into mini-fascists. Hopefully without him she can get her head on straight and raise her children to be human beings.